After you install TestStand, you must use the NI Activation Wizard to activate the software.
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Note When you activate TestStand 4.0, you need the product serial number and the name of the product for that serial number. You can find both of these items on the proof-of-ownership and registration card that you received with the product. |
National Instruments offers a variety of TestStand licenses for the different ways you can use TestStand in development and deployment applications. In general, you can select from the following types of licenses: the TestStand Development System License, the TestStand Custom Sequence Editor License, the TestStand Debug Deployment Environment License, and the TestStand Base Deployment Engine License.
In most cases, when you first install TestStand, you activate a TestStand Development System License. Use the other licenses to activate TestStand on machines to which you deploy TestStand custom sequence editors or operator interfaces that you develop.
Use the following descriptions only as a reference for the TestStand licensing options. Refer to ni.com/activate for more information about activating TestStand licenses. Refer to ni.com/teststand to purchase a TestStand license. Contact your local National Instruments representative for more information or for questions about specific licensing needs.
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Note This document does not replace the National Instruments Software License Agreement installed in the <National Instruments>\Shared\MDF\EULAs\NIReleased directory. |